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“Love songs” in suffering: My Jesus, I love TheeĀ 

My memories of last fallā€™s months are fading. Slipping in and out of consciousness, overcome by constant intractable pain and extra bouts of electric shocks, dealing with weakening side effects of treatmentā€¦well, itā€™s Godā€™s mercy that Iā€™m forgetting much of it now. Praise to our loving, powerfully healing, compassionate God! Read more…

By Lauri Hogle, ago
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Shining Christ in us, have Thine own way, Lord

Lord, We pray for so much right now. We come to You for help, our loving Abba Father, as believers in Jesus Christ, who is our elder brother. You always hear our prayers just as You heard His, always with us by Your indwelling Holy Spirit (Mt. 28:20, 1 Cor. Read more…

By Lauri Hogle, ago
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Amazing grace, how sweet the sound! God’s gift of grace!

My heart broke when I saw her post, changing the lyrics of this hymn, saddened by what had become her angered unbelief in God’s gift of grace in the gospel of Jesus Christ. Suffering rattles our trust in Him, doesnā€™t it? Oh, how we all need Godā€™s amazing grace, offered Read more…

By Lauri Hogle, ago
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Take courage, my soul, releasing anxiety to the Lord Jesus

Iā€™m in awe of the powerfully healing work of our loving Lord. Heā€™s compassionately given us many ways to cope with anxietyā€™s raging symptoms. For they can be particularly strong during (and after) the storms of this fallen world, with its blustering torrents of crisis and changes in our lives. Read more…

By Lauri Hogle, ago
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Peace in the storms of anxiety

My chronic illnesses and brainstem herniation boiled into a raging storm seven months ago. Each day held so many moments of scary health crisis that I continually asked God to keep me physically safe during the hours my husband had to work. After my beautifully care-giving husband helped me get Read more…

By Lauri Hogle, ago
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Amazing love! How can it be?Ā 

Amazing love! How can it be  that thou, my God, shouldst die for me? (ā€œAnd Can It Be,ā€ Wesley, C., 1738) Lord Jesus, we come to You in this holiest of weeks, with its emotional downs and ups. As we hear each story, help us to remember that things were Read more…

By Lauri Hogle, ago
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Lord, I know. Rest me.

Precious Lord, Take my hand. I come to You weary. Help me to sing today. I need no other argument,  I need no other plea, it is enough that Jesus died,  and that he died for me.  (ā€œMY FAITH HAS FOUND A RESTING PLACE,ā€ EDMUNDS, L. H., 1891)  Who shall bring any charge against Godā€™s Read more…

By Lauri Hogle, ago
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Knowing Jesus suffered for me…and suffers with me

When bouts of electric shocks fired into my body, with violently convulsing pain, I couldnā€™t think but only endure. When they subsided, I always melted with gratitude to our Savior, who suffered with me.  Can you imagine His raw and exposed nerves struck by scourges? Can you imagine the physical Read more…

By Lauri Hogle, ago
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Singing the gospel when Iā€™m afraidĀ 

Father, The deceiver tempts us to fear that You’re punishing us when we suffer. When the hits keep coming, and we read the words of the Old Covenant, we’re easily afraid it’s our fault. We must not be doing enough to “earn” Your favor. Our accuser tempts us to think Read more…

By Lauri Hogle, ago
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Trusting Jesus With My Future

As one whoā€™s begged God for healing over many years of progressively worsening illness, Job feels like a chronic illness friend to me. Check out chapters 2, 7, 16, 19, 29, and 30 for gruesome details. Stories like Jobā€™s remind me that itā€™s Godā€™s healing mercy when we experience moments Read more…

By Lauri Hogle, ago

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